Monument to John Crosier, About Ten Yards North West of Chancel of St Giles' Church is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1994. Monument.
Monument to John Crosier, About Ten Yards North West of Chancel of St Giles' Church
- WRENN ID
- white-pewter-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP: Danny Beales (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1994
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Monument to John Crosier, About Ten Yards North West of Chancel of St Giles' Church, High Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 079 862
- Coordinates
- 51.56504, -0.44359
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The monument to John Crosier, who died in 1801, is located about ten yards north-west of the chancel of St Giles' Church. It is made of Portland stone and features a tomb chest with a pyramidal cover, topped by a fluted urn on a square plinth. Each corner of the tomb chest has a shouldered design. The railings that once surrounded the tomb are no longer present. The short inscription concludes with the couplet: "Praises on Tombs are Trifles vainly spent/ Man's Good Life is his Best Monument." At the time of inspection, the monument was in very poor condition, suffering from weathering, vegetation growth, and exposure of cramps, which has caused extensive cracking.
Local climate
Monument to John Crosier, About Ten Yards North West of Chancel of St Giles' Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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